The expanding value of long-term studies of individuals in the wild

Over the past seventy-five years, long-term population studies of individual organisms in their natural environments have been influential in illuminating how ecological and evolutionary processes operate, and the extent of variation and temporal change in these processes. As these studies have matured, the incorporation of new technologies has generated an ever-broadening perspective, from molecular and genomic to landscape-level analyses facilitated by remote-sensing.

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Long-term population studies of individual organisms in their natural environments have been influential in understanding ecological and evolutionary processes, and advances in technology have broadened the perspective of these studies.